A free college education is a rare thing in the United States. With collective student debt surpassing $1 trillion and average annual college tuitions topping $22,000, students across the nation increasingly must turn to costly loans to afford a decent education. Cooper Union, a college in New York City, is one of the few colleges left in […]
They have grandiose titles, but the city’s five borough presidents are actually invested with little power by the city charter. Blame the U.S. Supreme Court, which 24 years ago said it was undemocratic for tiny Staten Island and massive Queens have equal voting power, and forced the end of the once powerful Board of Estimate. Candidates […]
They have grandiose titles, but the city’s five borough presidents are actually invested with little power by the city charter. Blame the U.S. Supreme Court, which 24 years ago said it was undemocratic for tiny Staten Island and massive Queens have equal voting power, and forced
A former intern for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan was arrested Tuesday for stalking and blackmailing young women online to obtain nude photos of them, authorities said. FBI agents arrested 21-year-old Adam Savader at his home in Great Neck, NY on charges that he illegally obtaining nude pictures of 15 women and threatening to make them […]
New York City’s military veterans are suffering deadly delays in getting government benefits back home – and today, advocates asked the City Council to lend them a hand. A joint hearing of the council’s Veterans and Mental Health committees examined an issue probed recently by the Center for Investigative Reporting: a massive national backlog of government benefits […]
New York City’s military veterans are suffering deadly delays in getting government benefits back home – and today, advocates asked the City Council to lend them a hand. A joint hearing of the council’s Veterans and Mental Health committees examined an issue probed recently by the Center for Investigative Reporting: a
Last week’s sprawling corruption probe that ensnared State Senator Malcolm Smith had a guest appearance by a little known pot of cash used to pay for roads and bridges. “Multi-modal money is outside the budget and it’s always around,” the FBI allegedly recorded Smith as saying, as he hatched a plan to funnel $500,000 in state […]
For the second time in a week, a New York state politician was arrested in a bribery scandal, leading a prosecutor to say Thursday that political corruption in the state “is indeed rampant” and people should be angry about it. Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, a Democrat, was arrested in a bribery investigation in which another state assemblyman, Nelson Castro, […]
For the second time in a week, a New York state politician was arrested in a bribery scandal, leading a prosecutor to say Thursday that political corruption in the state "is indeed rampant" and people should be angry about it. Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, a Democrat, was arrested in a bribery investigation in which another state assemblyman,
When Hurricane Sandy hit, nonprofit organizations with close community ties stepped in to provide food and clothing donations as well as check in on elderly and vulnerable people in the hard-hit waterfront areas. Now, as the city prepares to submit its plans to the federal government on how it will spend $1.77 billion in recovery […]
When Hurricane Sandy hit, nonprofit organizations with close community ties stepped in to provide food and clothing donations as well as check in on elderly and vulnerable people in the hard-hit waterfront areas. Now, as the city prepares to submit its plans to the federal government on how it will spend $1.77 billion in recovery money, some of
